Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 16:57 AFP — Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 16:28 AFP — Iranian film star Mitra Hajjar was arrested at her home Saturday, the reformist newspaper Shargh reported.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 15:43 AFP — Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 13:52 AFP — A Turkish court on Saturday jailed a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a day after Sweden extradited him, state media reported.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 13:48 AFP — More than 200 people have been killed in Iran since nationwide protests erupted over the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, the country's top security body said Saturday.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 12:57 AFP — Iran's parliament and the judiciary are reviewing a law which requires women to cover their heads, and which triggered more than two months of deadly protests, the attorney general said.
Saturday, 3 December, 2022 , 10:17 AFP — Sweden has extradited a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to Turkey as Ankara presses Stockholm for further steps in return for its membership in NATO, state media reported on Saturday.
Friday, 2 December, 2022 , 19:45 AFP — A US-led coalition fighting jihadists resumed regular patrols in Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria on Friday after earlier Turkish air strikes, an AFP correspondent and a Kurdish military source said.
Friday, 2 December, 2022 , 19:29 AFP — The United States on Friday warned Turkey not to disrupt operations by US and Kurdish forces against jihadists in Syria, while acknowledging Ankara's security concerns in the volatile region.
Friday, 2 December, 2022 , 17:15 AFP — Black-clad women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, in what a rights group called a "rare" move in the staunchly conservative region.